Highlights of Recent Trends in Financial Markets: November 2005

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07-Nov-2005

Over the past few months, prices in major financial markets have remained strong despite further oil price increases. After major equity markets had shown a soft spot around March and April, they regained ...

Highlights of Recent Trends in Financial Markets: March 2005

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17-Mar-2005

Over the past few months, major equity markets generally have continued their upward trend, while interest rates at the long end of the maturity spectrum have declined. Meanwhile, credit spreads for both ...

Highlights of Recent Trends in Financial Markets: October 2004

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26-Oct-2004

Financial markets have shown resilience in an environment of marked increases in oil and commodity prices and somewhat diminished expectations about the strength of the economic recovery. Major stock markets, ...

Highlights of Recent Trends in Financial Markets: March 2004

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22-Mar-2004

Both bond and equity markets have been strong recently. Stock markets have continued to rise over the past few months, reflecting the on-going economic recovery and general optimism about the economic outlook....

Foreign Direct Investment Statistics: How Countries Measure FDI

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29-Oct-2003

This joint IMF/OECD report highlights the progress made since the 1997 SIMSDI survey and identifies areas where more than 75 percent of countries surveyed now implement the recommended methodology for ...

Highlights of Recent Trends in Financial Markets: November 2003

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27-Oct-2003

Financial markets have staged a recovery in the past few months, reflecting a more positive outlook for some of the major economies and, compared to half a year ago, the reduction of geo-political uncertainties. Growth figures for the United States and Japan for the second quarter...

Bank Profitability - Financial Statements of Banks: Edition 2002

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02-Apr-2003

Trends in bank profitability and factors affecting it are major indicators of changes in the state of health of national banking systems. These OECD statistics, based on financial statements of banks, ...

Highlights of Recent Trends in Financial Markets: April 2003

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01-Apr-2003

Over the past six months, the scenario of an only modest economic recovery in the major economies seems to have become entrenched. Geopolitical tensions concerning a war in Iraq and the fear of renewed ...

Survey of Implementation of Methodological Standards for Direct Investment (SIMSDI)

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31-Mar-2003

Launched in May 1997 and most recently updated in 2003, this survey is a comprehensive study on the metadata for foreign direct investment (FDI) statistics. It provides information on methodological practices ...

Highlights of Recent Trends in Financial Markets: November 2002

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14-Nov-2002

November 2002. This report, in English and French, was published in Financial Market Trends, No. 83.

Financial crisis: Save our savings

Amid the worst current financial crisis since the 1930s, EU leaders have pledged to protect savers’ deposits. Already most OECD countries have explicit deposit insurance schemes for savings up to certain limits. In a number of countries these have now been raised temporarily.

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